Gary Holmes: Shoe Leather and Wallpaper Paste: Campaigning Before MMP
Shoe Leather and Wallpaper Paste: Campaigning Before MMP In the late 1980s, I was part of Garry Knapp’s campaign team in East Coast Bays. Looking back, the way we won…
Gary Holmes is a local body politician and business association manager who made Waiuku his home and has never stopped asking questions about how it is governed. Elected to the Franklin Local Board in 2022 to represent the Waiuku subdivision, he has built a reputation as a fiscally conservative voice prepared to take on Auckland's bureaucracy when the numbers don't stack up. He believes good local government starts with reading the data yourself.